Altay Coskun, University of Waterloo

Research

Bosporan Kingdom Crimea Black Sea Roman Empire Asia Minor Pontos Thrace Mithradatic Dynasty

Latest funding

Ethnic identities and diplomatic affiliations of the Bosporan Kingdom
SSHRC · 2017 · Principal investigator
$166,708
Rome and the Seleukid East
SSHRC · 2014 · Principal investigator
$24,977
Seleucid Royal Women at McGill in Feb. 2013 - Seleucid Study Day IV
SSHRC · 2012 · Principal investigator
$34,960

Ethnic identities and diplomatic affiliations of the Bosporan Kingdom

Principal investigatorSSHRC2017Insight Grants

Principal investigators: Coskun, Altay

Keywords: Bosporan Kingdom; Crimea; Black Sea; Roman Empire; Asia Minor; Pontos; Thrace; Mithradatic Dynasty; Hellenistic kingship; diplomacy; international friendship; Roman citizenship; ethnic constructs; ideology; acculturation; multiculturality; historiography

$166,708

Rome and the Seleukid East

Principal investigatorSSHRC2014

Principal investigators: Coskun, Altay

Keywords: translation; literature; arts and culture; Ccanadian studies; diversity and multilingualism; languages; literary history

$24,977

Seleucid Royal Women at McGill in Feb. 2013 - Seleucid Study Day IV

Principal investigatorSSHRC2012Connection Grants

Principal investigators: Coskun, Altay

Keywords: Hellenistic history; Seleucid Empire; Hellenistic royal court; gender studies; intercultural studies

$34,960

New history of Ancient Galatia

Principal investigatorSSHRC2011

Principal investigators: Coskun, Altay

Keywords: Galatia; Asia Minor; Celtic names; Hellenistic world; Roman hegemony; Roman province; ethnogenesis; migration; settlement; intercultural processes; representation of barbarians; ruler cult; Phrygians

$75,700

Opportunities for interdisciplinarity in Hellenistic scholarship

Co-investigatorSSHRC2009International Opportunities Fund

Principal investigators: Faulkner, Andrew T.

Keywords: Hellenistic; Greece; Greek; history; literature; Italy; Rome; Latin; art; culture; interdisciplinary

$24,985

From CIHR, NSERC and SSHRC funding decisions: CIHR since 2008, NSERC since 1991 and SSHRC since 1998, including their latest published competition results.

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